profaneness

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Wit which borders upon profaneness deserves to be branded as folly.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah

But higher up, where there is no profaneness or criminality, or gross and disgusting visible intemperance, what other evils are there? 

From The Wesleyan Methodist Pulpit in Malvern Sermons Preached at the Opening Services of the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, in 1866 by King, Knowles

That is, because I admit that profaneness exists in the Church, therefore I consider it a token of the Church.

From Apologia pro Vita Sua by Newman, John Henry

There is something very much nobler here than in Esau's profaneness.

From Misread Passage of Scriptures by Brown, James Baldwin

What once would have been punished as profaneness and blasphemy, is no longer noticed by the gentle guardians of the law, and treason has almost ceased to be a crime.

From On Calvinism by Hull, William